AI Coding Assistant Is Gaslighting You – The Hidden Cost of Uncertainty

by kurinikkuon 1/17/25, 11:39 PMwith 1 comments
by Terr_on 1/18/25, 12:58 AM

> Confidence Signaling: AI assistants could provide clear, reliable indicators of their confidence

I'm not sure this is possible: In most LLM applications we humans are perceiving the (un-)confidence from the lines given to a fictional robotic story character. Simply change the name of the character to Zap Brannigan and it becomes a confident expert on everything.

What we want is the confidence of the author that their character is proposing good ideas that will work... However the only confidence the real-world LLM can offer is "how much trouble did I have finding a next word that seems to fit."